It's clear how their thoughts had run
You know what the mark of a good game is? It doesn't feel like it wasted a single moment of your time. Okami comes to mind. There are games that, even though you spend upwards of 60, 70 hours with them, it doesn't feel like enough. You want to play more.
The mark of a bad game is one that you wish would just end. I've had my share of them as well. Or better yet, a bad game is one that is so short that you don't feel as if you actually accomplished anything. I remember Heavy Rain was kind of short, except that you actually accomplished things as you went. Bayonetta is another one of those games, with the added bonus that it made me a better gamer in the process.
This past week, I wrote about a culture shock moment I had lately, where I played some rather short and sometimes pointless games and wondered if I could find anything truly epic outside of RPGs.
I also started up a year-long project where I'm going to be writing a review of one of the Disney Animated Canon a week, probably on Mondays. This year, #52 on the list is coming out in November, and I feel it's the perfect year to do something like this. Naturally, I should've checked the availability of some of the titles first. Fortunately, my sources are many, and I shouldn't have a problem acquiring most of the titles I don't already have, with the possible exceptions of #6 to #11. Those, I'll have to acquire before SOPA destroys the Internet, if you know what I mean.
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Adventures of a Canadian Gamer #34 - A Short Piece About Culture Shock
-But I digress. Bayonetta used a beat-em-up system to fight enemies with, rather than just the standard tactic of pressing the X button until all your enemies are lying down. And despite the almost crippling difficulty of the so-called "normal" setting, I actually found myself getting better at the game until I found myself facing the final boss with no fear in my heart. Bayonetta, in a sense, taught me how to play video games that aren't RPGs.
Gaming Review - CSI: Hard Evidence
-Whatever possessed me to try out the CSI video games, I don’t know. Maybe I felt that there was no way Ubisoft could mess up the franchise any more than CSI: Miami does every Sunday.
Disney Animated Canon #1 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
-"Aaaaaah! It's a prince! My dreams are about to come true! This movie's going to be very, very short! I gotta get out of here! Run away!"
Bonus Movie Review - Enchanted
-For all we know, Prince Edward could own an island named after him, and he could’ve just been visited by three spirits the night before who showed him that eating babies is not the right and proper thing for princes to do. It doesn’t matter. Five minutes before Enchanted, Edward simply didn’t exist.
The mark of a bad game is one that you wish would just end. I've had my share of them as well. Or better yet, a bad game is one that is so short that you don't feel as if you actually accomplished anything. I remember Heavy Rain was kind of short, except that you actually accomplished things as you went. Bayonetta is another one of those games, with the added bonus that it made me a better gamer in the process.
This past week, I wrote about a culture shock moment I had lately, where I played some rather short and sometimes pointless games and wondered if I could find anything truly epic outside of RPGs.
I also started up a year-long project where I'm going to be writing a review of one of the Disney Animated Canon a week, probably on Mondays. This year, #52 on the list is coming out in November, and I feel it's the perfect year to do something like this. Naturally, I should've checked the availability of some of the titles first. Fortunately, my sources are many, and I shouldn't have a problem acquiring most of the titles I don't already have, with the possible exceptions of #6 to #11. Those, I'll have to acquire before SOPA destroys the Internet, if you know what I mean.
The Links
Adventures of a Canadian Gamer #34 - A Short Piece About Culture Shock
-But I digress. Bayonetta used a beat-em-up system to fight enemies with, rather than just the standard tactic of pressing the X button until all your enemies are lying down. And despite the almost crippling difficulty of the so-called "normal" setting, I actually found myself getting better at the game until I found myself facing the final boss with no fear in my heart. Bayonetta, in a sense, taught me how to play video games that aren't RPGs.
Gaming Review - CSI: Hard Evidence
-Whatever possessed me to try out the CSI video games, I don’t know. Maybe I felt that there was no way Ubisoft could mess up the franchise any more than CSI: Miami does every Sunday.
Disney Animated Canon #1 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
-"Aaaaaah! It's a prince! My dreams are about to come true! This movie's going to be very, very short! I gotta get out of here! Run away!"
Bonus Movie Review - Enchanted
-For all we know, Prince Edward could own an island named after him, and he could’ve just been visited by three spirits the night before who showed him that eating babies is not the right and proper thing for princes to do. It doesn’t matter. Five minutes before Enchanted, Edward simply didn’t exist.